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EPL Defender Attacking Threats - Goals and Assists

As we knows there are very low chance for Defenders to scoring goals or assists if comparing with Midfielders and Strikers. But here we listing and put in ranking all the defenders statistics with highest attacking threats.

Because of their statistics are very small, we need to look at the last 7 game weeks. Please take a note that our review in this article is only focusing on the attacking threats for defenders. So we will ignoring their fixtures difficulty and clean sheet chances.

There are lot's of stats to evaluate the defenders performances but BMM will focusing on the main stats for Goal Threats and Assist Threat. By using these main stats we will get the Average Threats, and from Average Threats we will comparing them and put in ranking.

For Goal Threats, our priority stats are the Shots Inside the Penalty Box (SIB), Shots on Target (SOT), and Touches Inside the Penalty Box (TIB). For Assist Threats, we will looking at the Key Pass (KP), Successful Crosses (SCRS), and Through Ball (TRB) as the main priority. All these stats are the main stats that will guiding us to rate how much these players involved in attacking especially their contribution to scoring goals and creating assists.

Few boxes being highlighting with different color to differentiate the cheap players starting with value 5.0M and below. In the Attacking Threats boxes we bolding the numbers for the best 25 players in all threats, but if you need further clarification, please drop your questions inside the comment box.

By referring to these stats, our decisions when selecting defenders from each EPL teams will be stronger. Even the Clean Sheets points is the main priority but if we selecting the correct player with good attacking threats, we may get extra points from them for their goals and assists. When we want to reducing the budget from defender, these listing also will give us some clues to select the best cheap defenders. If we referring to S. Dann stats, we will get the answer why he is scoring 2 goals in his last 3 games, he have the highest Goal Attacking Threats based on these table.